According to a survey by Scripps Howard News Service released by Ohio University which asked 1,010 "Americans to ponder their options in every U.S. presidential election held since 1964," two term President George W. Bush would lose to both Senator John Kerry and former Vice President Al Gore.

Interestingly, Ralph Nader captured 7% in the survey, even though the independent only garnered 0.4% of the popular vote in 2004.

In a "rerun" of 2000, the poll suggests that Gore would beat Bush with 46 to 38 percent. Gore did win a slightly larger percentage of the popular vote in the 2000 election (48.4% to 47.9%), but after a month-long battle that reached the Supreme Court Bush was awarded a majority of the electoral college vote.

In a rematch between Democrat George McGovern and Richard Nixon, the Republican president who resigned under threat of impeachment would lose by three percentage points (39% to 42%).